[Users] Documentation: Storage Domain conversion from Data Domain to Export Domain

[Bob Doolittle]

On 11/26/2013 03:27 PM, Dafna Ron wrote:
> sql -U postgres engine -c 'select connection from 
> storage_server_connections;'

So now that we determined that I have stale connection state in my DB, 
any suggestions as to how I might clear it out safely?

I tried rebooting my Engine, but the connection is still in the DB and 
it still doesn't show in the Admin Portal.

Thanks,
    Bob

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> On 11/26/2013 08:21 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
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>> On 11/26/2013 03:11 PM, Dafna Ron wrote:
>>> can you check the engine data base for the connection?
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>> Sorry, will need more guidance for that :(
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>> -Bob
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>>> On 11/26/2013 07:12 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>> On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Dafna Ron wrote:
>>>>> can you run mount and see if you have stale connections to the 
>>>>> domain?
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>>>> The only existing mounts on the Host are the loopback mount for the 
>>>> Data Domain, and the mount from Engine for the ISO Domain.
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>>>> I can import another Export domain on the same host which was 
>>>> created in the normal manner (and then 'destroy' it), but I can't 
>>>> import the converted one.
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>>>> -Bob
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>>>>> On 11/26/2013 06:22 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>>> I am having to recreate my engine, and want to recover my old VMs 
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> the previous Storage Master Data Domain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A while back, Michael Ayers posted this recipe (the gmane reply 
>>>>>> feature
>>>>>> won't allow lines longer than 80 chars, even if they were from 
>>>>>> the original
>>>>>> post :(, so I apologize for the link ) :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.ovirt.user/4428
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>>>>>> Should this method still work? I have tried to recreate this with 
>>>>>> 3.3.1
>>>>>> and can't. I copied over the old Data Domain to a new directory, and
>>>>>> edited the dom_md/metadata file as follows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/U4xJawR8
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>>>>>> But when I try to import it, I get:
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>>>>>> "Error while executing action: Cannot add Storage Connection.
>>>>>> Storage connection already exists."
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>>>>>> and
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>>>>>> "Failed to retrieve existing storage domain information."
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>>>>>> Here's output from engine.log:
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>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/NVdzLDXb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any clues?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>     Bob
>>>>>>
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